Mainly Social [New Zealand Sammelband]

New Zealand: Various Publishers, 1932-1943.
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21.5cm x 14cm. 23 volumes in 1, black and white illustrations. Red cloth, typescript paper label.

New Zealand society in depression and war, from air-raid shelters and swimming lessons to Auckland slums and venereal disease, including a signed copy of Allan Fisher’s account of Soviet Moscow. Compiled by the Headmaster of Marlborough College, Blenheim, Herbert Alexander Horace Insull, with his bookplate, an autograph list of titles in his hand on Marlborough College letterhead, and some works with his signature. Full list of titles: 1. Allan G. B. Fisher, Moscow Impressions (1932, signed by the author); 2. Citizens! Protect Your Families: How to Provide Raid Shelter and Protection from Flying Glass ([1941]); 3. Fred Hall-Jones, The Spirit of Britain (1942, 2 copies); 4. H. Winston Rhodes, War Over the Pacific (1941); 5. Home Defence: What Can You Do To Assist (1941); 6. L. S. Hearnshaw, Hours of Work in War Time (1942); 7. Robert Solway, Wartime Journey (1943); 8. Department of Health, Healthy Youth (No date); 9. New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association, It’s Easy to Teach (1939); 10. Education Department, The Teaching of Swimming (1940); 11. Whitcombe & Tombs Catalogue of New Zealand Books ([1936]); 12. The Treaty of Waitangi (Whangarei: Northern Publishing Co., 1934); 13. W. J. Phillips, Maori Carving (1941); 14. C. R. H. Taylor, The Gothic Beauties and History of the Canterbury Provincial Buildings (second edition, 1941); 15. Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand, Safety in the Mountains: A Handbook for Trampers and Mountaineers (1937); 16. Nina Barrer, Pioneer Women of New Zealand (1934); 17. W. B. Bland, The Slums of Auckland (Progressive Publishing Society, 1942); 18. Venereal Disease: The Shadow over New Zealand (Progressive Publishing Society, 1942); 19. Arthur Sewell, Freedom of Speech (second impression, No date, top edge of wrapper clipped, Insull’s signature to first page); 20. Captain Peter McIntyre, Exhibition of Official War Paintings: The Second N.Z.E.F. in the Middle East ([1943]); 20b (not in Insull’s list). Canterbury Society of Arts, Catalogue of the Sixty-Third Annual Exhibition (1943); 21. W. R. Vallance, The Adventuring Word and Other Glimpses of New Zealand ([1943], Insull’s signature to wrapper).

Minor bumping to cloth. Minor tanning. Some creasing. Very Good Condition.

AU$350